The following is a guest post by Jeanine Cali, a writer for the Law Library’s Outreach Team on the upcoming presentation by Professor Katherine Aron-Beller about her new book, Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena, 1598-1638.

As part of her research, Professor Aron-Beller studied a large number of primary documents including trial transcripts, letters and other manuscript sources, many of which are available in the Library of Congress collections. According to the author, “the book explores two areas of interest: the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in the early modern Italian duchy.” The author hopes the book will bring a “better understanding of how an Inquisitorial court assumed jurisdiction over a practising [sic] Jewish community in the seventeenth century.”

Please join us at this event that we hope will generate increased interest amongst experts and the general public to explore our collections dealing with the topics reviewed in Professor Aron-Beller’s book, in particular, materials written originally in Latin, German, Italian, and other languages.

For those of our readers who will not be able to make it to the event, we will have a member of the In Custodia Legis team attend on your behalf and blog about it afterwards. We will also live tweet the event via Twitter @LawLibCongress. Stay tuned!

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Great topic, very much a part of modern times.
Is this presentation recorded and posted on the Internet so the rest of the world can benefit? Unfortunately I do not see this as an option: For those of our readers who will not be able to make it to the event, we will have a member of the In Custodia Legis team attend on your behalf and blog about it afterwards. We will also live tweet the event via Twitter

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